Historic cannonball truly a unique gift idea

The cannonball the size of an ostrich egg dates was dug out of a Lakeville hillside in the 1920s. Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan

SALISBURY — Dan Dwyer, proprietor of Johnnycake Books in Salisbury, has an unusual item for sale: a Salisbury cannonball.

Dwyer said the cannonball was dug out of a hillside in Lakeville around 1920 by a Salisbury resident who died in the 1980s. (There were apparently two cannonballs, but nothing is known of the whereabouts of the second.)

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